Stress Computed Tomography Perfusion Versus Fractional Flow Reserve CT Derived in Suspected Coronary Artery Disease: The PERFECTION Study

Gianluca Pontone*, Andrea Baggiano, Daniele Andreini, Andrea I. Guaricci, M. Guglielmo, Giuseppe Muscogiuri, L. Fusini, F. Fazzari, S. Mushtaq, Edoardo Conte, Giuseppe Calligaris, Stefano De Martini, Cristina Ferrari, Stefano Galli, Luca Grancini, P. Ravagnani, Giovanni Teruzzi, Daniela Trabattoni, Franco Fabbiocchi, Alessandro LualdiP. Montorsi, Mark G. Rabbat, Antonio L. Bartorelli, M. Pepi

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Objectives: This study sought to compare the diagnostic accuracy of coronary computed tomography angiography (cCTA) with that of cCTA+fractional flow reserve derived from cCTA datasets (FFRCT) and that of cCTA+static stress-computed tomography perfusion (stress-CTP) in detecting functionally significant coronary artery lesions using invasive coronary angiography (ICA) plus invasive FFR as the reference standard. Background: FFRCT and static stress-CTP are new techniques that combine anatomy and functional evaluation to improve assessment of coronary artery disease (CAD) using cCTA. Methods: A total of 147 consecutive symptomatic patients scheduled for clinically indicated ICA+invasive FFR were evaluated with cCTA, FFRCT, and stress-CTP. Results: Vessel-based and patient-based sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive values, and positive predictive values, and accuracy rates of cCTA were 99%, 76%, 100%, 61%, 82%, and 95%, 54%, 94%, 63%, 73%, respectively. cCTA+FFRCT showed vessel-based and patient-based sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive values, and positive predictive values and accuracy rates of 88%, 94%, 95%, 84%, 92%, and 90%, 85%, 92%, 83%, 87%, respectively. Finally, cCTA+stress-CTP showed vessel-based and patient-based sensitivity, specificity, and negative predictive values, and positive predictive values and accuracy rates of 92%, 95%, 97%, 87%, 94% and 98%, 87%, 99%, 86%, 92%, respectively. Both FFRCT and stress-CTP significantly improved specificity and positive predictive values compared to those of cCTA alone. The area under the curve to detect flow-limiting stenoses of cCTA, cCTA+FFRCT, and cCTA+CTP were 0.89, 0.93, 0.92, and 0.90, 0.94, and 0.93 in a vessel-based and patient-based model, respectively, with significant additional values for both cCTA+FFRCT and cCTA+CTP versus cCTA alone (p < 0.001) but no differences between cCTA+FFRCT versus cCTA+CTP. Conclusions: FFRCT and stress-CTP in addition to cCTA are valid and comparable tools to evaluate the functional relevance of CAD.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1487-1497
Number of pages11
JournalJACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
Volume12
Issue number8P1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2019
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • accuracy
  • computed tomography
  • coronary artery disease
  • fractional flow reserve
  • perfusion

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